Veronique de Rugy
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Life Is Completely Different, Except for the Bureaucrats
In these times of great uncertainty, we should be doing everything we can to make it easier for people to find and sustain work—not turning honest, hardworking people into outlaws.
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For the Love of Cronies
Politicians will be politicians, you may say. But unfortunately, we will have to live with the distortions and the debt for decades to come.
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Beware of Panic Policymaking
Precisely because we are now more willing to let our guard down we must keep a vigilant eye on all these politicians who are now hyperactively working to “protect” us.
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Sorry, But Stimulus Policies Will Not Work
The most urgent health-related step is for the federal and state governments to remove all restrictions on private-sector experimentation while trying to find solutions to this epidemic.
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Emancipate the Workers, State by State
The literature has long established that licensing requirements generally restrict the supply of services in the licensed industry by prohibiting some perfectly competent workers from working as providers.
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How To Disguise a Budget Increase as a Cut
The bottom line is that there is nothing historic about this budget, or these cuts. When we look at it in the cold light of reality, it is just the same big spending, unbelievable assumptions, and fiscal irresponsibility that have, dismayingly, become commonplace.
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The Huge Difference Between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
I have always thought that the comparison of United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson to US president Donald Trump was unfair to Johnson. And while admittedly I am no Boris Johnson expert, I do have his speech from February 3th to prove the injustice of the comparison. In fact, the more I read the speech,…
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Should I Keep Fighting the Ex-Im Bank or Give Up?
This week, I was invited to testify before the Board of Advisors of The United States Export-Import Bank (EXIM). Whatever their reasons, I commend them for having me for a stimulating conversation. As many of you know, I have been and remain an advocate for the agency’s termination. I have written extensively on why termination…
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Support for Industrial Policy Is Growing
Support for industrial policy is growing. Thankfully, no one is talking yet about the full-blown central planning popular in the 1930s. Instead, what’s now in vogue is a 1970s and ‘80s-era version of industrial policy allegedly meant to improve upon the market. In this incarnation, planning treats government as an actor much like any other…
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One Point Four Trillion Dollars
Future taxpayers will be getting lumps of coal for many Christmases to come.
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Life Is Completely Different, Except for the Bureaucrats
In these times of great uncertainty, we should be doing everything we can to make it easier for people to find and sustain work—not turning honest, hardworking people into outlaws.
-
•
For the Love of Cronies
Politicians will be politicians, you may say. But unfortunately, we will have to live with the distortions and the debt for decades to come.
-
•
Beware of Panic Policymaking
Precisely because we are now more willing to let our guard down we must keep a vigilant eye on all these politicians who are now hyperactively working to “protect” us.
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•
Sorry, But Stimulus Policies Will Not Work
The most urgent health-related step is for the federal and state governments to remove all restrictions on private-sector experimentation while trying to find solutions to this epidemic.
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•
Emancipate the Workers, State by State
The literature has long established that licensing requirements generally restrict the supply of services in the licensed industry by prohibiting some perfectly competent workers from working as providers.
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•
How To Disguise a Budget Increase as a Cut
The bottom line is that there is nothing historic about this budget, or these cuts. When we look at it in the cold light of reality, it is just the same big spending, unbelievable assumptions, and fiscal irresponsibility that have, dismayingly, become commonplace.
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•
The Huge Difference Between Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
I have always thought that the comparison of United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson to US president Donald Trump was unfair to Johnson. And while admittedly I am no Boris Johnson expert, I do have his speech from February 3th to prove the injustice of the comparison. In fact, the more I read the speech,…
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•
Should I Keep Fighting the Ex-Im Bank or Give Up?
This week, I was invited to testify before the Board of Advisors of The United States Export-Import Bank (EXIM). Whatever their reasons, I commend them for having me for a stimulating conversation. As many of you know, I have been and remain an advocate for the agency’s termination. I have written extensively on why termination…
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•
Support for Industrial Policy Is Growing
Support for industrial policy is growing. Thankfully, no one is talking yet about the full-blown central planning popular in the 1930s. Instead, what’s now in vogue is a 1970s and ‘80s-era version of industrial policy allegedly meant to improve upon the market. In this incarnation, planning treats government as an actor much like any other…
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•
One Point Four Trillion Dollars
Future taxpayers will be getting lumps of coal for many Christmases to come.